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Philippe Buache (born
Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les découvertes nouvelles dans la grande mer
' (Paris, 1754). This contains a chart of the western coast of North America. * ''Le parallèle des fleuves des quatre parties du monde pour servir a déterminer la hauteur des montagnes'' (1757) * ''Mémoire sur la traversée de la mer glaciale arctique'' (1759). This contains his hypothesis of an Alaskan peninsula. * ''Considérations géographiques sur les terres australes et antarctiques'' (1761)
French West Indies Collection
including geographical writings of cartographer Philippe Buache, are available for research use at the
Philippe Buache (born La Neuville-au-Pont
La Neuville-au-Pont () is a commune in the Marne department in the Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an admi ...
, 7 February 1700; died Paris
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, 24 January 1773) was a French geographer, known for inventing a new system of geography and popularizing this field.
Life and work
Buache was trained under the geographer Guillaume Delisle, whose daughter he married, and whom he succeeded in theAcadémie des sciences
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in 1730.
Buache was nominated first geographer of the king in 1729. He established the division of the world by seas and river systems. He believed in a southern continent, an hypothesis which was confirmed by later discoveries. In 1754, he published an "Atlas physique." He also wrote several pamphlets.
His nephew, Jean Nicolas Buache (born La Neuville-au-Pont
La Neuville-au-Pont () is a commune in the Marne department in the Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an admi ...
, 15 February 1741; died Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
, 21 November 1825), was also a geographer of the king.
Works
*Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les découvertes nouvelles dans la grande mer
' (Paris, 1754). This contains a chart of the western coast of North America. * ''Le parallèle des fleuves des quatre parties du monde pour servir a déterminer la hauteur des montagnes'' (1757) * ''Mémoire sur la traversée de la mer glaciale arctique'' (1759). This contains his hypothesis of an Alaskan peninsula. * ''Considérations géographiques sur les terres australes et antarctiques'' (1761)
See also
* Sea of the WestReferences
External links
* ThFrench West Indies Collection
including geographical writings of cartographer Philippe Buache, are available for research use at the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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.
French geographers
1700 births
1773 deaths
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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